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End of the line
Some contracts to be canceled
By IRIS NAAR
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
• The time spent in dorm contract lines
,this year will be fruitless for 14.4 percent
bf University women and 13.7 percent of
University men requesting residence
Iran space next year.
William Mulberger, manager of the
University assignment office, said . 510
female and 573 male dorm contract re
-14 quests will be canceled.
This year, 3,552 contracts were filed by
women for 3,042 spaces, he said. 'Of this
number, 2,868 who filed now live id the
residence halls, 613 filed from the Corn- .
monwealth campuses and 71 contracts
were filed by students residing off cam-
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pus or returning from a leave of-absence.
!I v " Mulberger said 4,191 requests were
made by men this year, with 3,618 of the
students being retained. Of the total
number of requests, 3,116 were made by
men now living in the residence halls, 988
from the Commonwealth campuses and
87 filed by men residing off campus or
* returning from a leave of absence.
Men and women submitted theit con
tracts separately for next year. There
fore, students do not have the same line
number as filing nuinber, he said.
This year, 1,083 contracts will be
cancelled compared with 1,065 last year,
Mulberger said. Not too many students
requested to move back onto campus this
year, he added.
"I thought with the economy that we'd
be canceling substantially more than
this," he said.
, Part of the reason for the low submis
sion rate for off-campus students may be
because the room assignment policy for
students moving back onto campus was
changed. The students will be assigned to
temporary space which may have dis
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Editor's Note:- The immediate water
shortage is over, and most of the volun
tary or mandatory conservation restric
tions imposed across the Northeast have
been lifted.
,But long-term water prob
lems are far from over. This is the first
of a four-part series examining the wa
ter supply on a local and national basis,
focusing on why a water shortage
existed and on the severity of the prob
lem in State College.
By JOHN SCHLANDER
•
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
INTRO TO WATER SUPPLY PROB
LEM
Water just does not have the glamour
of
. Big Oil. People generally do not put
water in the same class as petroleum,
coal and other resources, because many
Heinz calls Cuts vital
By JOHN SCHLANDER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
President Reagan's extensive pro
posed budget cuts including de
creases in federal student aid are
what our nation needs to recover
economically, Sen. H. John Heinz 111,
R-Pa., said.
Speaking at a news conference and
a community leaders' meeting at the
Nittany Lion Inn yesterday, Heinz
'said the federal government has pro
vided many unessential services,
which it can no longer afford.
"What Reagan disputes," Heinz
said, "is that there is an entitlement
to certain services.
"There is no constitutional right
It's what we choose to do."
Reagan's proposal would cut the
rate of government spending in half,
from an expected average increase of
about $lOO million to $5O million,
Heinz said.
These government spending cuts
would be followed by tax cuts. Rea
gan has proposed 10 percent tax cuts
'in each of the next three years.
"I think that he is doing something
that is not only right, but necessary,"
Heinz said. "The federal budget is out
of control.
"We've not only built a safety net,
but a web people are unwilling to pay
for," he said.
Part of the federal student loan
program falls in this web, Heinz said.
Many student were using the mon
ey in ways not related to education,
he said. Heinz said extreme abuse
cases ranged from students using the
federal loans to invest in oil compa
nies to buying real estate.
"It's not a question of whether
student aid should be cut, but by how
much," Heinz said.
Heinz said he is most concerned
with Reagan's proposed cuts in Con-
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couraged some of them from filing, Mul
berger said.
"I think that just turned them off," he
said.
Mulberger said 400 packets
. were
picked up by those students but only 150
were actually returned.
"I anticipated overall a little higher
(submission number) meaning we would
have to cancel more people," he said.
Although the assignment office is run
ning late, he said, the deadline for checks
to be received and letters notifying stu
dents of rejection is Monday, he said.
"We'll strive to have them postmarked
late Friday," he said.
This year, lists will be posted in each
residence hall area where students can
see if their contracts were canceled. The
lists will be posted on Monday, he said.
Formerly, students had to wait to be
notified by whoever received the notice
at home.
"This way they'll both know about the
same time," Mulberger said.
-He said in the past, the office received
complaints about the delay in students
receiving notice from their homes, but it
is University policy to mail money (in
this case $45 checks) to the home.
Delays in processing resulted from a
new mechanized program, he said.
"It still seems to be a step in the right
direction," he•said.
Also, results of all Commonwealth
campus submissions were not received
until last Friday, he said, though the
count was taken on March 13.
"Somebody on the campuses is not
cooperating," he said. "You can't com
pute till you have . all of them."
However, the processing was a big
improvement.over last year, Mulberger
said.
people think water will never run out.
But nobody will deny that water is an
essential, life-giving resource. And this
winter ushered in another in a long
series of shortages of that resource.
Ag Charles L. Hosler, dean of the
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences,
put it, "This is not a new topic. If you
want to pick up the Old Testament, you'll
find lots of concern about the water
supply."
Hosier and two other University pro
fessors said it is impossible to predict
what the future of , the water supply will
be.
"Doomsday" predictions of a drying
cycle leading to a day when we run out of
water have no basis in fact. Likewise,
predictions of a problemless future have
rail, mass transportation in general
and legal services.
On the government revenue side,
Heinz said he is supporting legislation
"to try to protect .small farms from
the oppkession of estate taxes."
These taxes make it almost impos
sible for a family to hand down a
farm to the next generation, he said.
"The one thing I want to make sure
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no basis in fact
Either could happen.
Climatic conditions involve too many
complexities and subtleties to make a
weather forecast a week in advance,
much less years in advance, the profes
sors said.
The wisest course of action, they
agreed, is to prepare for the worst, by
taking measures tc4 expand our water
supply and use water more efficiently.
In interviews with The Daily Colle
gian, Hosler; geology professor Robert
F. Schmalz and geography professor
Frederick Wernstedt analyzed the water
situation on a local and national basis.
Nationally, spring thaw and rainfall
increases are raising water supply lev
els, though the shortage remains in
Sen. H. John Heinz / 111
of," Heinz said, "is that our region is
treated fairly."
Heinz said he sent a letter to Rea
gan's budget director, David Stock
man, requesting a regional analysis,
but has not yet received a reply.
Critics have claimed Reagan's bud
get cuts favor the Sun Belt.
"The purpose of this letter is to see
if it does," Heinz said.
Postal system in the HUB
The U.S. Postal Service increased the cost of mailing a first-class letter by 3
cents on Sunday, bringing the cost of writing to Mom and Dad to 18 cents. The
increase, vihich is the fifth in 10 years, will be reflected on stamps featuring
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in the United States.
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
chronically dry areas. In other words,
the drought is over, but the water short
age is not.
Locally, the State College Water Au
thority which serves the town and
some surrounding communities, but not
the University lifted its mandatory
conservation measures March 9 because
well levels were back to normal, pre
drought levels. •
The University did not have such a
critical shortage, and never had to take
such measures. University and State
College officials could only guess why
the situation was so different for neigh
boring communities.
Schmalz said the two communities
were tapping the ground water table at
different elevations and this could ac
count for the difference.
THE LOCAL SITUATION
Most of State College's water supply
and all the University's water supply are
drawn from wells. Schmalz, who is also
a member of the. State College Water
Authority, said the authority in "nor
mal" weather pumps about three quar
ters of its water from its wells and about
a quarter from the Shingletown Gap
Reservoir.
The University draws entirely from its
wells located north of campus.
This underground supply is called
ground water and huge reserves remain
untapped across the nation.
As explained by Schmalz, "Ground
water is rainfall or snow melt or surface
runoff that soaks into the ground and
works its way down until it gets to a point
where the ground is satuated with wa
ter."
But not all of this water becomes
ground water, he said.
"Out of any precipitation in the sum
mer, about half returns almost immedi
ately to the atmosphere either
Supreme Court rules on abortion
By RICHARD CARELLI
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court ruled yester
day that states can require, with some exceptions, the notifica
tion of parents when teen-age daughters seek abortions.
In another case, the court ruled that statutory rape laws are
valid even if they only punish males not females for
having sex with a consenting minor.
The two rulings,- both involving teen-ager sex, reflected
deep disagreement among the nine justices. They upheld a
Utah abortion-notification law by a 6-3 vote and upheld
California's statutory rape law by a 5-4 count.
The Utah law requires doctors to tell parents, if possible,
about their minor daughter's request for an abortion before
performing the operation. A doctor's failure to obey the law
could mean a $l,OOO fine or even a year in jail.
Writing for the court's majority, Chief Justice Warren E.
Burger made clear that Utah and other states are free to
impose such a requirement when three situations exist:
• The girl is living with and dependent on her parents
• She is not married or otherwise "emancipated"
on her own
• She has made no claim or showing that she is mature
enough to make the abortion decision for herself, or that her
A story in Friday's edition of The
Daily Collegian concerning a theft
ring dealing in University equip
ment incorrectly identified Matthew
Musser, 21, of Spring Mills, as being
involved in the theft of more than
$6,500 worth of materials.
University police said Musser was
arrested as a result of information
gained during the investigation of
Musser has not been implicated in the theft ring.
Until the Blackwell stamps are printed, however, the Postal Service
will be using purple "B stamps" which will picture an eagle but will have no 18-
cent designation. The "B stamps" are similar to the "A stamps" used during
the 1978 rate increase from 13 to 15 cents.
evaporates directly or is absorbed by
plants and returned through transpira
tion.
"So half is gone there. Of the remain
der, about 20 percent runs off the surface
as streams and flows into the Juniata or
Susquehanna. The remaining 30 percent
works its way into the ground."
In winter, even less water may work
its way into the ground water supply,
Schmalz said.
'Out of any
precipitation in the
summer, about half
returns almost
immediately to the
atmosphere either
evaporates directly or
is absorbed by plants
and returned through
transpiration.'
—Robert F. Schmalz,
professor of geology
"The ground may be frozen and most
of the water may just stay on the sur
face," he said.
This was a big problem this winter
that worsened the shortage.
Even though rain was coming down in
seemingly monsoon proportions in Feb
ruary, the ground was still frozen and
would not allow much of the water to
enter the water table.
"Normally," Schmalz said, "we can
Our spring -like weather will continue through the week. There
should be a good deal of sunshine today along with little wind
and a. high temperature near 50. Partly cloudy and chilly
tonight with a low of 30. Mostly sunny and mild tomorr^w with
an afternoon high of 53. Partly sunny, breezy and mild on
Thursday with high temperatures again in the 50s.
Correction
relationship with her parents might be seriously affected by
notification.
Although they joined Burger's opinion, Justices Lewis F.
Powell Jr. and Potter Stewart emphasized in a separate
opinion authored by Powell that yesterday's ruling "leaves
open the question whether (the Utah law) unconstitutionally
burdens the right of a mature minor or a minor whose best
interests would not be served by parental notification."
Burger also was joined by Justices Byron R. White and
William H. Rehnquist. Justice John Paul Stevens voted to
uphold the Utah law without such reservations.
Justices Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr. and
Harry A. Blackmun dissented.
Ruby Tuesday
the theft ring, a University Police
Services spokesman said. Musser
was arrested by University police on
March 13 and charged with stealing
a wristwatch worth about $225.
count on about one-third of our total
precipation going into the ground."
Once the water is in the ground and
part of the ground water supply it moves
as tiny droplets through pores and crev
ices of rock and soil.
"The water moves very slowly," he
said. "Inches per day, a few feet per
day, maybe tens of feet per day."
Actual underground streams are not
very common, he said.
"A cavern filled with water is rare
enough to be a tourist attraction. There
are caverns under Penn State where you
can see water flowing through under
ground.
"But the amount of water involved
really is small," he said. "Ground water
is nothing like a river.
"It's not like a river in the speed at
which it moves, nor is it like a river in
the concentration of water. It's in mo
tion, continually draining away and try
ing to find its way to the Susquehanna or
other rivers.
"But it's doing this as tiny droplets in
crevices and soil."
Water may also be purposely stored on
the earth's surface in reservoirs. In a
drought, however, reservoirs dry up
faster than ground water sources.
This happened with the Shingletown
Gap Reservoir in the recent drought.
Before the drought, Schmalz said, State
College generally got 25 percent of its
water from the reservoir.
But during the drought, only 10 per
cent could be drawn from the reservoir,
he said. •
Even though the ground remained
frozen, much . of the run off water was
pooled in the -Shingletown Gap Reser
voir. The State College Water Authority
took advantage of this and began draw
ing more from the reservoir and gave
the wells a rest at the end of February.
Photo by Rob Hammer